Comments on: CIPAV: FBI spyware http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12954 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:03:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12954/comment-page-1#comment-156840 Reader's Write Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:44:38 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12954#comment-156840 avast! antivirus is superior to AVG and all others. avast! antivirus is superior to AVG and all others.

]]> By: cyberscan http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12954/comment-page-1#comment-153418 cyberscan Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:59:04 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12954#comment-153418 This is one of the reason why I specifically use Linux. Linux does not require people to provide the name of the owner when installing nor does it require any serial number or activation code that can be traced. It is still possible to plant spyware on a computer running Linux if the planting agent takes advantage of a browser flaw. However, with a bit of tweaking, one can defang the resulting spyware so that it is ineffective. All programs running on my computer that accesses the Internet has the SGID set to a group called Internet. IPTABLES is set so that only programs that run as root or belong to the Internet group can access the Internet. In addition, I have the firewall set to allow only programs with certain names to access the Internet (I also modified these programs so that they do not run unless a certain environmental variable is set to a certain value). I change the Agent name and forbid scripts on the browser I use via commonly available plug-ins. If one MUST run Winblows, I recommend the following software. ZoneAlarm (personal firewall), AVG Antivirus, (antivirus software) Lavasofts Ad-Aware (anti-spyware), FireFox (webbrowser with the no-script and adblocking programs), Thunderbird (email client), and aaalso, a hardware firewall. I also recommend one pays cash for computer hardware purposes and not buy from a store where one is known. If Windows asks for your name, I recommend using an alias that you are not known to have used, the same goes for your company. Yes, I can visit any site I want to without having to fear that I am going to be infected with somebody's spyware. This is one of the reason why I specifically use Linux. Linux does not require people to provide the name of the owner when installing nor does it require any serial number or activation code that can be traced. It is still possible to plant spyware on a computer running Linux if the planting agent takes advantage of a browser flaw. However, with a bit of tweaking, one can defang the resulting spyware so that it is ineffective. All programs running on my computer that accesses the Internet has the SGID set to a group called Internet. IPTABLES is set so that only programs that run as root or belong to the Internet group can access the Internet. In addition, I have the firewall set to allow only programs with certain names to access the Internet (I also modified these programs so that they do not run unless a certain environmental variable is set to a certain value). I change the Agent name and forbid scripts on the browser I use via commonly available plug-ins.

If one MUST run Winblows, I recommend the following software. ZoneAlarm (personal firewall), AVG Antivirus, (antivirus software) Lavasofts Ad-Aware (anti-spyware), FireFox (webbrowser with the no-script and adblocking programs), Thunderbird (email client), and aaalso, a hardware firewall. I also recommend one pays cash for computer hardware purposes and not buy from a store where one is known. If Windows asks for your name, I recommend using an alias that you are not known to have used, the same goes for your company. Yes, I can visit any site I want to without having to fear that I am going to be infected with somebody’s spyware.

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